CSIC (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas-Spanish National Research Council)
Instituto de Lenguas y Culturas del Mediteráneo y Oriente Próximo, Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales (ILC, CCHS-CSIC)
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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